Hauntings

By Blake Crouch

Hiring back-country guides, a psychic, and a paranormal photographer to aid their investigation into the bizarre and abrupt disappearances of every citizen from a gold-mining town over a century earlier, a history professor and his journalist daughter embark on the journey aware that the last team that attempted to solve the mystery was never heard from again.

By James Herbert
Series Dvid Ash Novels

Visiting a secluded stately home that country locals believe to be haunted, paranormal investigator David Ash looks into stories about strange occurrences and makes a shocking discovery beyond anything he has ever encountered.

By Stephen King
Recommended By Melissa Contino, Library Clerk

Plagued by vivid nightmares of the summer house he had shared with his late wife, grieving widower Mike Noonan returns to his former Maine getaway, only to find a town in the grip of a ruthless millionaire and tormented by a series of ghostly visitations.

Became the TV mini-series: Bag of Bones.

By Stephen King

A scarlet-and-white, 1958 Plymouth fury - salvaged over every rational dissent and objection, from decay - possesses its new owner and brings hellish terror to him, his friends, and his classmates.

Became the movie: Christine.

By Edith Wharton

Set in the bleak mansions of England, America, and Normandy, eleven classic tales depict the terrors of persons confronted by unearthly entities

By Shirley Jackson

This is the story of four seekers who arrive at a notoriously unfriendly pile called Hill House: Dr. Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of a haunting; Theodora, his lighthearted assistant; Eleanor, a friendless, fragile young woman well acquainted with poltergeists; and Luke, the future heir of Hill House. At first, their stay seems destined to be merely a spooky encounter with inexplicable phenomena, but Hill House is gathering its powers and soon it will choose one of them to make its own.

By Joe Hill
Recommended By Jessikah Chautin, Community Engagement Specialist, Melissa Contino, Library Clerk

A collector of obscure and macabre artifacts, unscrupulous metal band musician Judas Coyne is unable to resist purchasing a ghost over the Internet.

By Riley Sager
Recommended By Melissa Contino, Library Clerk

Twenty-five years after her father published a wildly popular nonfiction book based on her family’s rushed exit from a haunted Victorian estate, naysayer Maggie inherits the house and begins renovations, only to make a number of disturbing discoveries.

By Grady Hendrix
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager, Kaye Spurrell, Readers' Services Librarian

After strange things start happening at the Orsk furniture superstore in Cleveland, three employees volunteer to work an overnight shift to investigate, but what they discover is more horrifying than they could have imagined.

By Jennifer McMahon
Recommended By Isabel Zinman, Readers' Services Librarian

When an inspired effort to build her dream home is overshadowed by discoveries about her rural property's violent past, a former history teacher becomes obsessed with the stories of three generations of local women who died under suspicious circumstances.

By Sarah Gailey
Recommended By Jenn Jordan, Library Aide

Called back home by her mother, Vera must not only face the love she had for her serial-killer father, but also confront the secrets yet undiscovered in the foundations of the notorious Crowder house, finding out just how deep the rot goes.

By Sarah Waters
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services

“Waters reflects on the collapse of the British class system after WWII in a stunning haunted house tale … (Publishers Weekly).”

By Mark Z. Danielewski

A family relocates and discovers that their new home seems to be without boundaries.

By Grady Hendrix
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager, Jessikah Chautin, Community Engagement Specialist
With Stacey Mencher, Readers' Services Librarian

Monday, November 13, 2017. 7:30 PM.

After witnessing a series of strange incidents combined with her best friend's increasingly bizarre behavior, 1980s high schooler, Abby, comes to the conclusion that Gretchen has become possessed by a demon and embarks on a quest to save her.

By Martin Stewart
Recommended By Melissa Contino, Library Clerk

Five former friends must discover which of them broke the rules when objects they sealed in an ancient stone box come to life in twisted forms and dead things reanimate.

By Wendy N. Wagner
Recommended By Jenn Jordan, Library Aide

The Secret Skin by Wendy N. Wagner is a sawmill gothic that begins with June Vogel's return to Storm Break, her family's estate. Things in the great house aren't what they used to be. Doors slam in the night. Faucets turn on, untouched. Something is always watching, whatever June does. And when her brother returns with his new bride, deceit and betrayal threaten to destroy everything she loves.

By Stephen King

Jack Torrance sees his stint as winter caretaker of a Colorado hotel as a way back from failure, his wife sees it as a chance to preserve their family, and their five-year-old son sees the evil waiting just for them.

By Sonja Condit

A pregnant woman who moves into her dream home discovers she must solve the mystery of a decades-old murder to rid herself of a ghostly little boy and save her unborn child.

By Henry James
With Sonia Grgas, Health Reference Librarian

Tuesday, October 14, 2014. 7:30 PM.

A governess tries to protect the two young children in her care from the ghosts she believes are haunting them.

Became the movie: The Others.

By Christopher Rice

The dark history of Spring House, a beautifully restored plantation mansion on the outskirts of New Orleans, has long been forgotten. But something sinister lurks beneath the soil of the old estate.